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Scott White Contemporary (La Jolla) Presents "Hither And Yon," An Exhibit By David Adey

10/31/2013

Gravitational Radius

Scott White Contemporary Art (La Jolla) runs Hither and Yon, an exhibition by David Adey from January 11 to February 15, 2013. There will be an artist walk and talk from 5 to 6 p.m. Saturday January 11.

In the exhibit Adey uses different materias and techniques to analyze the notion of constraints as a metaphor for the human condition. I confess to not knowing what this means.

Some of these works involve deconstructed consumer images. He uses fragmetns of shik from hundreds of models, celbrities making collages. Describing this likely isn't goint to do it justice. Adey is, incidentally, the first artist signed on to be in residence at Scott White Gallery. He is on sabbatical from his position as Professor of Art at Point Loma Nazarene University.

There is also a documentary on Adey that filmmaker, Dale Schierholt is putting together. It will air on KPBS and will premier at MCASD in La Jolla. See a preview below.

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Art by Constraint Trailer from Dale Schierholt on Vimeo.

Adah Rose Gallery Presents Art By John James Anderson and Mei Mei Chang From November 14 To December 28, 2013

10/29/2013

Adah Rose Gallery (3766 Howard Ave Kensington, MD) is set to show art by John James Anderson and Mei Mei Chang from November 14 to December 28, 2013. There will be an opening 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.Saturday, November 16, 2013. In addition to art by Anderson and Chang there willbe music by Blackberry Blonde.

Anderson is a conceptual artist using software, video, painting an media. This new piece is made up of shaped canvases that are a cross between painting and sculpture. He is creating a new space--spaces that cannot exist in the real world. Anderson has two BFAs from Iowa State in fine arts and graphic design and an MFA in painting from American University (where he also taught). He has also taught at George Washington and The Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Chang here presents work that contrasts architecture and landscape and the power of water to affect change. But this is also about the different forces,internal and external, that affect us all. Chang is influenced by Western and Eastern traditions. Her work uses painting, stitching and cut outs. She received a MFA in photography from Ohio State University.

Sundaram Tagore (Hong Kong) Presents Threshold: Contemporary Thai Art From November 12 To December 7, 2013

10/29/2013

by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon

Sundaram Tagore Gallery (57-59 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong) presents Thresholds: Contemporary Thai Art from November 13 to December, 2013. There will be an opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 pm on Wednesday November 13.

The exhibit features six cutting edge artists from Thailand. This is the same exhibit that was featured at the gallery's New York location in recent months and is curated by Gregory Galligan (director and co-founder of Thai Art Archives, Bangkok). The artists all address various political, artistic and social issues in their work.

Artists include; Angkrit Ajchariyasophon, Nim Kruasaeng, Sakarin Krue-On, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Nipan Oranniwesna and Phaptawan Suwannakudt.

Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago) Opens Group Show Including Renee McGinnis, Peggy Mcnamara, Deborah Simon And Cathie Bleck On November 1, 2013

10/28/2013

by Renee McGinnis

Packer Schopf Gallery (942 W. Lake St Chicago) presents a group show of work by Renee McGinnis, Peggy Macnamara, Deborah Simon and Cathie Bleck that opens Friday, November 1, 2013. There will be a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. with the artists.

I could try to wax eloquent about each artist but you would do better to click HERE to find out the details on each.

Two are Chicago artists (McGinnis & McNamara), one from New York (Simon) and one from Cleveland (Bleck). All of the artists, excepting Bleck, have worked with the gallery previously. Expect there to be works on papyrus, birds, bears and aeroplanes. I hope the bears are not free roaming.

It should be interesting. You should be there.

by Peggy Macnamara

by Deborah Simon

by Cathie Bleck

Don Stinson's "The Road To Valentine", Opens At David B. Smith Gallery (Denver) Tonight, October 25, 2013

10/25/2013

Big Bend: No Simple Wilderness

Don Stinson's The Road To Valentine, Opens At David B. Smith Gallery (1543 A Wazee St. Denver) runs from October 25, to November 23, 2013. There will be a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday October 25. TONIGHT!.

Stinson's work explores topics such as ecology, development, space and experience while taking on the cliches of the American West and its art. These pieces are from places in America that may seem familiar and others that are less known. His work seems more real than reality somehow. This exhibit also comes with a full-color catalog.

Stinson's work is included in the Denver Art Museum, Art in the Embassies Program (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) The Phoenix art museum and a slew of others.

Peter Symonds Exhibit Opens November 13, 2013 At Gladwell & Patterson (London)

10/25/2013

Aonach Eagach from Loch Achtriochtan, Glencoe

A exhbition of new work by landscape painter, Peter Symonds, runs from November 13 to 29, 2013 at Gladwell & Patterson (5, Beauchamp Place, London).

Symonds paints hyper-realistic landscapes that are really quite amazing. This show consists of fifty new pieces by the artist. Thes paintings are also of some of the most spectacular landscapes you can imagine, from the Scottish Highlands to Morocco. Landscapes are not the only sort of work on display here--there are also pieces showing everyday life in the context of these landscapes; figure go about their day in a village in Surrey & Sussex, Morocco or at the beach.

You can view the paintings (and purchase them) at the gallery link above.

Dawn, Jebel Sahro, Eastern Morocco

ArtNowNY Presents "Happy Place" By Joseph Grazi From November 7 to 30, 2013

10/25/2013

Love

ArtNowNY (548 W 28th Street, NYC) is set to show Happy Place, new art by Joseph Grazi, from November 7 to 30, 2013. There will be a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, November 7.

Grazi lives in Brooklyn. He has a BFA in Film and Animation (School of Visual Arts). This new work is sculpted in bones, bat wings,marble, roses and more. His work confronts the anxiety most of us have about death. But this isn't about grimness or despair? His work is optimistic in a way. This new work, Happy Place, is a celebration of the certainty and, indeed, the beauty of the certainty of death.

Ok, yes, that still sounds a little grim.

Julian Lethbridge's "Paintings" Opens November 7, 2013 At John Berggruen Gallery

10/24/2013

Julian Lethbridge Paintings runs from November 7 through December 14, 2013 at John Berggruen Gallery (228 Grant Avenue, San Francisco). This is Lethbridge's first solo exhibit with the gallery. There will be a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 7, 2013.

In these paintings the artist continues working with optical depth and rhythmic surfaces in abstract works. He uses many, often obscured, layers of paint to make these deep (in a spacial sense) works.

Lethbridge was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in England. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), The Whitney Museum, The Tate Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Nationa Gallery. He currently lives in New York.

Sargent's Daughters (New York) Opens Group Exhibition, "Painting 101," November 16, 2013

10/24/2013

Sargent's Daughters (179 East Broadway, New York) opens a group exhibition, Painting 101, Wednesday November 6, 2013. There will be a reception from 6 to 8 on opening night.

Artists include; Francesca Dimattio, Dennis Hollingsworth, Jonathan Lasker, Daniel Rios Rodriguez
and Sandi Slone.

Carrie Mae Weems' "Slow Fade To Black" And Anne Wilson's "Dispersions", New Solo Shows At Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago), Open October 26

10/23/2013

From When and Where I Enter-Ancient Rome 2006

by Carrie Mae Weems

Rhona Hoffman Gallery (118 North Peoria St., Chicago) presents two solo shows Carrie Mae Weems' Slow Fade To Black and Anne Wilson's Dispersions from October 26 to December 7, 2013.

Weems has been creating video and photographic works confronting social and racial stereotypes for over 30 years. The pieces ask her audience to take another look at history. She creates a conversation between history and now. She was recently the subject of a retrospective, Three Decades of Photography and Video and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Slow Fade to Black is her fourth solo show with the gallery.

Wilson, based in Chicago, creates work dealing with memory, history and social/domestic ritual via multi-media. Dispersion consists of 26 fabric pieces. She uses heirloom white damask coth with holes/tears from use. She then sews a perfect circle with thread and hair creating a halo effect which is then "stopped again by the white metal frame." This is Wilson's third show with the gallery.

Dispersions 2013 by Anne Wilson